forgive me, but i can't find the package which contains that perl module checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/shared-mime-info-0.17-r1/work/shared-mime-info-0.17/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.17-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1526: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 923: Called src_compile shared-mime-info-0.17-r1.ebuild, line 37: Called econf '--disable-update-mimedb' ebuild.sh, line 527: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Portage 2.1_pre7-r3 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.14-hardened-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-hardened-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi aim alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin crypt cups dlloader dvd encode flac ftp gd gd-external gif gnome gtk gtk2 hardened icq idea imap imlib java jikes jpeg mad mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia php pic png posix ppds python readline samba sdl spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vim vorbis win32codecs x86 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
oh... duh... its the dev-perl/XML-Parser package. was searching for "parser" not "Parser" :-P
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